Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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International Relations & Development

The impact of China on Sub Saharan Africa
"It is important to keep a sense of perspective on the existing and potential impact of China on Sub-Saharan Africa. Although there has been a recent resurgence of growth in the SSA region, the overall picture on both poverty-reduction and growth look bleak"
Raphael Kaplinsky, Dorothy McCormick and Mike Morris, DFID China Office, March 2006

Toxic China?
Western critics cite China's environmental record as an excuse for attacking economic growth.
Kirk Leech, spiked, 7 March 2006

Shedding new light on the Dark Ages
The period from the 5th to the 11th centuries in Europe has traditionally been treated in Britain as the ‘Dark Ages’—of little interest.
Chris Harman, International Socialism, 3 February 2006

Arguing About War

This volume brings together provocative arguments by preeminent political theorist Michael Walzer on contemporary military conflicts - including the Iraq war - and the ethical issues they raise.

Michael Walzer, Yale University Press, 3 January 2006

China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation

Like America during the 19th century, only on a greater scale, China’s growth promises to transform the world order

James Kynge, Phoenix, 2005

Ambiguity and America: South Africa and US Foreign Policy
The reaction in the US to racial oppression and racial discrimination, and the manner in which it shaped the foreign policy of the US with respect to South Africa, reflects a long-standing ambivalence about the promotion of and compliance with international human rights principles.
Richard Goldstone, Social Research, December 2005

Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina

Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some dispense with the law altogether, while others scrupulously modify constitutions, pass new laws, and organize political trials?

Anthony W. Pereira, University of Pittsburgh Press, 31 October 2005

China: threat or opportunity?
The rise of China could be good for the West, if only it would rise to the challenge.
Sheila Lewis, spiked, 13 October 2005

Africa: a stage for political poseurs
Mick Hume, spiked, 9 June 2005

Trashing Mugabe
Josie Appleton, spiked, 31 May 2005


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